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how and why is this possible? Crap, on MacDougal, you need city permission to even touch a tree, while most of the greedy little store owners try to chop them down at will. This was the most beautiful tree in the east village. WHY??

That tree dropped a pretty huge limb on the sidewalk last week after the storm. It would have killed a passer-by, a kid or someone's dog. Blame the lawyers and the folks who have neglected to maintain that beautiful tree. Who's lot is that anyway?

I live directly across the street, and was as shocked as you all to see this when I got home last night.

My roommate was home during the day yesterday when he saw the workers cutting limbs off the tree. He went across the street to ask them what they were doing. The workers were in an orange tree cutting truck with the Parks Dept. leaf logo on the door. He was told by one of the workers that the Parks Dept. trims these trees way back every 5 years to prevent them from becoming too dense and heavy. He said if they let them go too long they can get blown over in a windstorm or limbs can break during a snowstorm. He also said that the trees grow so fast that it will be almost back to normal by the spring.

There was also a 30 foot by 10 foot pile of cuttings left in the street last night, and I saw the orange Parks Dept. truck with a chipper attached to it turning down my street this morning.

This is really sad. We had a willow tree even bigger than this next to our house, and my parents didn't want to take it down, but they had to because the roots were messing with the foundation. My mom cried when it was gone. It was a beautiful tree. I really hope these people had a valid reason to get rid of this tree, but I suspect they didn't.

It is possible that this tree will come back in full glory in the spring. As a city girl I know very little about gardening, but have learned a bit in the 15 or so years I've had a plot in my block's garden.

Once I trimmed my beautiful sage all the way back because the branches were rotting and it was a mess. I was castigated by my fellow gardeners for killing a 30 year old grandma sage. But the next year it came back stronger and more beautiful than ever.

"Mister!" he said with a sawdusty sneeze,"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.And I'm asking you, sir, at the top if my lungs"-he was very upset as he shouted and puffed-"What's that THING you've made out of my Truffula tuft?"

"Look, Lorax," I said."There's no cause for alarm.I chopped just one tree. I am doing no harm.I'm being quite useful. This thing is a Thneed.........

indeed if this is all the cutting being done to this tree (esp leaving the top with foliage) then yes, it will come back, thankfully. if they were going to "chop it down" they'd chop it down at the stump.

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